If you don’t get killed, it’s a lucky day for anybody.
ABRAHAM POLONSKY
What do you mean “gangsters”? It’s business.
More Abraham Polonsky Quotes
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First of all, directing is an idea that you have of a total flow of images that are going on, which are incidentally actors, words, and objects in space.
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I’ll kill you with my own hands rather than let you put the mark of Cain on my brother!
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Twenty years ago I wanted to move to a nice place so our Charley would grow up a nice boy and learn a profession. But instead we live in a jungle, so he can only be a wild animal.
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Money has no moral opinions.
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A holiday is when you celebrate something that’s all finished up, that happened a long time ago and now there’s nothing left to celebrate but the dead.
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Directors are like generals, political dictators, aggressive people…And everyone in the film is always grateful if you can tell them what to do.
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Don’t you see what a black thing that is for a man to do? How it is to hate yourself?
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A man could spend the rest of his life trying to remember what he shouldn’t have said.
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It’s an idea you have of yourself, like the idea you have of your own personality which finds its best representation in the world in terms of specific flows of imaginary images. That’s what directing is.
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What are you gonna do? Kill me? Everybody dies.
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I want to be a fighter. So fight for something! Not for money.
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